otherworldly
形容词 adj.
英 /ˌʌðəˈwɜːldli/
美 /ˌʌðəɹˈwɜɹl(d)li/|/ˌʌðəɹˈwɜɹəl(d)li/
英文释义
形容词 adj.
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Of, concerned with, or preoccupied with a world different from the tangible world, especially a fantasy, imaginary, or mystical world.
— In Just My Type: A Book about Fonts (2010) Simon Garfield describes [Edward] Johnston as 'a gaunt fine-boned man with a full moustache', and there's a picture of him at work with a quill pen that makes him look as other-worldly as a medieval sprite.
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Of, concerned with, or preoccupied with a world different from the tangible world, especially a fantasy, imaginary, or mystical world.; Odd and unfamiliar; strange, uncanny, weird.
— He had not seen cricket played since the war began; it seemed almost other-worldly, with the click of the bats, and the shrill young voices, under the distant drone of that sky-hornet threshing along to Hendon.
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Of, concerned with, or preoccupied with spiritual matters.
— Every religion that becomes ascendant, in so far as it is not other-worldly, must necessarily set its stamp upon the methods and administration of the law.
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Of or relating to the imagination or intellect.
— It is easy with the other-worldly gifts to be a schöne Seele [beautiful soul]; but to the large vision of [Johann Wolfgang von] Goethe that seemed to be a phase of life that a man might feel all round and leave behind him.
词源
From other world (“a world beyond death; a world other than the everyday world”) + -ly (suffix meaning having the likeness of, resembling forming adjectives).
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